[…]they there. They were the outpost. But like all good things, it had to come to an end. And the colonial office closed everything down, and I was left stranded, or more disbanded. And so I joined MGM, which I thought would step in the right direction, in that they had come out with a full Hollywood u[…]
[…] of the Thames, I suppose it would be of the Strand area of the Thames, and the invading airships were […]
[…]he musical director at the time he used to be the conductor who played and orchestrated all the music for a cinema against the silent pictures in the Strand. A famous …ROY FOWLER: The Tivoli.HARRY MILLER: Tivoli, yes. He used to direct the music and he had an assistant then who was a ver[…]
[…] had one or two very bad instances of crews being stranded abroad where the producers ran out of money and […]
[…] I can’t answer the question!Norman Swallow: Maybe, nobody can.Julia Cave: [Erm]. It varies, obviously.Norman Swallow: Well there are important strands, as we used to call them aren’t there still, and there must be maybe 1 or 2 people in charge of them?Julia Cave: Yes, there are still Boards f[…]
[…]nbsp;14:28 Yes, it was indeed it was. Yes, that's right. Yes. When I, when I was out of work, and that's the story of my life, I got a job with Strand Film Unit, not not for very long. I can't remember being there very long. Gloria Sachs 14:53 Doing what? Margaret Thomson[…]
[…] Eddie Mirzoeff. Eddie – I’m not sure if at that stage he was – I don’t think he was Head of Documentaries, but he was the Producer who was head of a strand later on. DB: Yes, [inaudible]. PB-C: It was well before that. Anyway Eddie Mirzoeff was Producer of this delightful film, a film I a[…]
[…]e passed that when crews went away on location they had to get clearance from head office because we had one or two very bad instances of crews being stranded abroad where the producers ran out of money and then there was trouble. So there's quite a lot of things going on there. Another thing I can […]
[…]illiams 9:50Yes. And they were a poor quality. Yes, they were. Dr. Johnson. I'm sorry, Boswell said to Samuel Johnson, that play you saw in the Strand. Was it worth seeing? And Johnson said, Yes, it was worth seeing. But was it worth going to see? Now there is a great difference in what is wor[…]
[…] they got everybody out of bed, I had a meeting in the manager’s office, and I don’t know what happened, but eventually I went to the Adelphi, in the Strand, which was a cinema then and spent six weeks, and I could bring up pistol shots, and now I understand dubbing mixers doing that all the time. I[…]
